The Midwest Collage Society (MCS), founded in 2003, promotes collage as a fine art by providing exhibit opportunities and professional development activities to our 52 members.
Meetings are held at 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien IL, usually the first Sunday of the month from 12:30-2:30pm. No meetings in January and July unless otherwise posted.
Midwest Collage Society celebrates over 100 years of Collage As a Fine Art since 1912.

Saturday, January 25, 2014

A special message from Mary Warner, who has done a marvelous job arranging our February meeting! Just one additional note: We will NOT have a swap table at our February meeting because we anticipate needing all of our table space for this shared meeting.

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Members of the Book and Paper Arts Guild and the Midwest Collage Society…

We’re planning on a sunny day together for our

Book and Collage Festival

on Sunday, February 9 from 10-3

at the Darien Municipal Center

1710Plainfield Rd. Darien

(This location on Plainfield Rd is about 1 mile west of Cass Ave and about 2 miles east of Lemont Rd. Plainfield Rd is 83rd Street west of Lemont Rd.)

We’d like to get started on the Envelope Book at 10am, so try to come a few minutes early to set up. We hope members of both groups will intermingle during the day and inter-mix at the tables so that members get to know each other. We’ll have the tables covered, but bring some wax paper to work on to keep your books and collages clean.

For the Envelope Book, supplies needed are a piece of handmade paper 5 ½ x 14” for the cover, another co-coordinating piece of handmade paper 4 ¼ x 11 ¾” for the inside cover, scissors, 12” ruler, glue stick and tacky glue. (If you have a scrap of either paper measuring about 2” x 4 ½’, bring that along.) We will have extra of these supplies for those who need them. The cover boards and envelopes will be provided.

If staying for the whole day, bring a sack lunch and drink. We should have our lunch break from at leastnoon ‘til 12:30.

Work on the Collages will start at 12:30. We’ll be using scissors, glue stick and /or gel (decoupage) medium with brush to apply and small water container, a couple of magazines from which to cut images and words, and any other images or papers you’d like to use, particularly if you want your collages to have a common theme. The 4 x 5 ½” substrates will be provided. We’ll have plenty of extra papers and magazines you can use.

During our work time there will be several collage techniques demonstrated.

Don’t worry if you need to be late for either project. We’ll do our best to help you catch up.

For those who cannot make it in the morning, we will have a short demo on how to make the envelope book later in the afternoon.

We’ll need to clean up at 2:30 since we need to leave the room as it was at 3pm.

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Hi to all the members of the Book and Paper Arts Guild and the Midwest Collage Society,

I’ve received several calls about the meeting scheduled for tomorrow night in Lisle. Although the weather should be much better than it was earlier in the week, many of us are still concerned about ice and night-time driving. So… after a lot of back and forth discussion… the meeting is being canceled so that no one has to worry, particularly if coming quite a distance.

What we’ve come up with is changing the Sunday, February 9 meeting in Darien to more of a full day workshop for both groups. The envelope book will be presented in the morning from about 10 to noon and making collages for the pages will be done in the afternoon from about 12:30 to 2:30. A few demos of collage techniques will be given during that time.

Besides the supplies listed for both meetings, bring a sack lunch and a drink. If anyone cares to bring something to share, please do so.

We’ll be sending out a reminder note again with the supply lists and the directions to the Darien Police Station in a couple of weeks.

I know some of you have been ready to come tomorrow evening and that some may now find that they cannot make it on Feb 9; I’m so sorry about that.

To join us in each making an envelope book at our January meeting, Thursday evening, January 9, 2014 from 7-8:30pm at the Lisle Public Library.

If you care to come early, we set up the room at 6 and have a short meeting at 6:30.

Please bring along scissors, a piece of handmade paper 5 ½ x 14” for the cover, another co-coordinating piece of handmade paper 4 ¼ x 11 ¾” for the inside cover, scissors, 12” ruler, glue stick and tacky glue. We will have extra of these for those who need them. All other supplies will be provided.

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Members

The MCS has over fifty members from Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. Most members reside in the Chicago area. All members are professional artists who exhibit regularly in urban and suburban galleries. Many exhibit in other states, and a few exhibit internationally. The backgrounds of our members are varied, and range from those with graduate training in the fine arts to the self-taught. Many work in fields outside of the art-related professions. The diverse experience of our members is one of the Midwest Collage Society's greatest assets, and has contributed to our growth.

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Ode to Collage Artists

We walk around always looking down,Searching for things to pick up off the ground.Leaves and paper or bits of string,We can use just about anything.While others may watch us and shake their head,We just cram the stuff in our pockets and forge on ahead.Home we go can't wait to start, what would we do if we didn't love Art?We empty our pockets to peruse all our treasures, amazed this junk gives us great pleasures.We crumple and tear, we sand and we paint, And we can't forget the glues and paste.Amazed with the things we can create from someone else waste.When were done some will say we just made it look old, But when we look upon it, All we see is Gold!

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History

The Midwest Collage Society (MCS), founded in 2003, promotes collage as a fine art by providing exhibit opportunities and professional development activities to our members.

Meetings and Dues

MCS generally meets on the first Sunday of each month (excluding January and July), from 12:30 to 3:00 PM in Darien, IL. Since many members live well beyond this area, the MCS uses its newsletter, group website, and regular e-mail communication to provide all members with timely information about planned exhibits and program content. Annual dues are twenty dollars ($20.00). Members also pay nominal fees for meeting workshops and exhibit entries. Membership dues are payable in April of each year.

Meetings are held at the Darien Municipal Center, 1710 Plainfield Road, Darien, IL.